prettyPhoto is one of most loved lightboxes and it is integrated into Visual Composer single image widgets and galleries. For RTL website I had to make it compatible, because all its hidden texts became visible for Right-to-Left version. Another problem was that when lightbox was active, there was a long horizontal scrollbar at the bottom, that allowed to scroll left to about 6000px width. This was fixed too.

I had a big trouble to enable Right-to Left support for masonry scripts that come from Visual Composer Page Builder plugin for WordPress. If you have a multilingual website that switches from LTR to RTL it becomes a really big problem.Continue reading →

WPML multilingual plugin for WordPress can already add hreflang tags for your languages used. I like to add x-default language tags too to designate default version to search engines. Here’s how it could be added to your child theme, when default language is English.Continue reading →

Last update (Sept. 2016) of Woocommerce Storefront theme included Google fonts into the theme. While WordPress has finally removed their Open Sans font from the core, WooThemes decided to add a default font from Google. And then to sell their Storefront extensions to remove it. Nice.Continue reading →

I wanted to install my very old Wacom CTE-430 (Sapphire) pen pad on my new system with Windows 10. Tried several latest drivers from Wacom, but they didn’t work. At the end, found a driver that worked: PenTablet_5.2.4-5 – you may download it from their repository.Continue reading →

Recently I had to create a new custom theme for Zendesk. I believe if you already started making a custom Zendesk templates, you know how to access it. Several highlights that would help to find some hidden features of Zendesk template engine are provided below. Zendesk template help provides a list of helpers.Continue reading →

I’ve recently discovered an opportunity to add enhanced security via HTTP headers, as most big sites do. You can test your headers information with developer tools in any modern browser from the Network tab. There is also a good site that could check your HTTP headers for security. In fact most security headers are very easy to add to your site. Here’s how.Continue reading →

Importing posts from WordPress as Facebook Instant Articles (FBIA) is relatively easy. FBIA will show to Facebook mobile app users when you share your posts / pages over the FB networks. Read more about Instant Articles considerations and settings in this post by WebProm. But here I want to show some tweaks possible in Automattic Instant Articles WordPress Plugin.

After you install this plugin, setup guide is written at its settings screen. But the most challenging thing during setup is to avoid and eliminate errors generation when converting WordPress posts into Instant Articles. One must tweak Custom Transformer Rules to remove such errors.Continue reading →